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Anti Federalist
03-20-2010, 10:57 AM
Computer glitch blamed for years of police raids on elderly Brooklyn couple’s home

A computer database glitch has sent police to the home of an elderly Brooklyn couple more than 50 times since 2002, sheepish cops admitted today.

Walter and Rose Martin endured the most recent raid on Tuesday, when four cops showed up looking for a suspect. Two officers broke a window in the back of their Marine Park home.

Police are still investigating why the couples’ address shows up in their database when some suspects’ names are keyed in.

But they’ve flagged the Martins’ address, and say the couple shouldn’t get any more visits from cops.

“The department has flagged the address so the police will not go there unless the address is double checked,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.

It’s possible that some years ago, a criminal suspect either lived in the Martins’ house, or falsely claimed to live there, police sources said. The Martins bought the house in 1997.

They wrote letters to Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in 2007, and after an investigation, police believed they had solved the problem.

“The department addressed the problem, and it was corrected back then,” said Browne. “Somehow it has popped up again.” (No, they didn't "address" it, if it kept on happening. - AF)

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/computer_glitch_blamed_home_years_mHUCrXCM8vhEyVGJ olFIPK#ixzz0ijypk4Va

UtahApocalypse
03-20-2010, 11:07 AM
the most recent raid on Tuesday, when four cops showed up looking for a suspect. Two officers broke a window in the back of their Marine Park home.

Why are they breaking windows of a residence without a warrant? The way they could have fixed this after ONE such violation would have been a lawsuit.

roho76
03-20-2010, 11:12 AM
Software written by a Keynesian.

pcosmar
03-20-2010, 11:30 AM
Software written by a Keynesian.

I suspect micro$oft and someone trained in it.

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